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Notling
An open-source, MIT-licensed Notion alternative for notes, docs and databases, with real-time collaboration, offline sync, sharing controls and self-hosting.
Notling Product Overview
Is Notling Right for You?
Liners prepares and updates these highlights as product information changes. Editorial standardsBest For
- Nigeria-based teams
- Offline-first workers
What It Does Well
- Notes and docs
- Database-style pages
Things to Check
- Sharing permission controls
- Offline sync behaviour
About Notling

Notling is an open-source workspace for notes, project documentation and knowledge management, built by Nigerian developer Prince Gbalam as an alternative to Notion. It is released under the MIT licence, with the code on GitHub.
Key capabilities include:
- Block-based editor (BlockNote) with headings, task lists, code blocks with syntax highlighting, blockquotes, callouts, media embeds and inline tables
- Real-time collaboration with Yjs CRDTs, live cursors and presence indicators
- Multiple workspaces for personal and team use, with nested page trees, reordering, and a trash with restore
- Database tables with text, number, select, date and status columns, and switching between table views and form collections
- Sharing and access control: private, workspace-wide, public view and public edit permissions, plus email invitations
- Search across page titles and content, filtered by permissions
- Media uploads for images, audio, video and documents, with per-user storage quotas
- Offline use as a progressive web app, syncing changes after reconnection
- Export to Markdown, HTML or PDF
Pricing: no paid plans are published. Sign in with a Google or GitHub account to start.
Self-hosting: the repository includes setup instructions to run Notling yourself with Node.js or Bun and a PostgreSQL database, with optional Cloudflare R2 or S3 storage.
Available on Web (PWA).
Built for students, freelancers and knowledge workers, and for product, engineering and operations teams working on specs, meeting notes, roadmaps and internal docs.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Notling
Notling is an open-source workspace for notes, project documentation and knowledge management. You organise content in nested pages and databases, collaborate in real time, work offline with changes syncing when you reconnect, and export to Markdown or PDF.
Notling does not publish any paid plans. The hosted app is free to sign into, and the code is MIT-licensed, so you can also self-host it.
Notling is a web app that can be used from any country.
Click Get Started on notling.app and sign in with your Google or GitHub account.
There is no app-store app, but Notling is a progressive web app you can install from the browser for a standalone window and offline use.
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